The nerve of these peons who think they are worthy to actually talk to congresscrooks!
Posted on 11/04/2009 6:37:33 PM PST by markomalley
The aide who helped turn Rep. Michele Bachmann into a controversial mainstay of cable news has informed colleagues that she’s quitting — just as the firebrand Republican congresswoman prepares for her biggest media moment yet.
Multiple sources have confirmed that Michelle Marston, a veteran Hill aide, is leaving Bachmann’s office.
In an e-mail exchange with POLITICO, Marston declined to say why she’s going.
“I’m just not talking about it, and frankly I don’t think there’s a story here,” Marston wrote. “Now, the thousands of people calling our office to tell us [they’re] coming to Capitol Hill tomorrow — that’s a story.”
Marston was referring to the prolific Bachmann’s latest political brainstorm, a “house call” on the Capitol Thursday to which she’s invited Fox News viewers and other conservatives to march with her through House office buildings, “find members of Congress, look at the whites of their eyes and say, ‘Don’t take away my health care.’”
The idea was hatched by Bachmann and a small clutch of allies at the member level, and aides say that the response to it has been so overwhelming that the conservative Republican Study Committee has been tapped to help with the arrangements for the event on the West Front of the Capitol.
The image of travel-ready conservatives flooding the hallways of the Capitol complex to confront members of Congress may not be one that Republican leaders are too keen to project.
A conservative Republican House member, speaking on the condition of anonymity, suggested that Bachmann’s views — and her willingness to state them — make it hard for her to keep staff.
“When your captain’s crazy, it’s time to find a new ship,” the lawmaker said.
Marston replaced Bachmann’s former chief of staff, Rich Dunn, last February. She beefed up Bachmann’s outreach operations with the aim of getting her out in the public eye more often.
“She looks like the type of person who you would invite in to have a cup of coffee at your table,” Marston said at the time. “There are a lot of people who are good, smart, well-meaning, well-intentioned members of Congress, but they speak to the people like they are members of Congress. Rep. Bachmann talks to people like they are people.”
But when Bachmann infuriated liberals with the suggestion that then-Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats in Congress held “anti-American” views, Marston acknowledged that her boss wasn’t for everyone.
“You either love Michele Bachmann or you don’t love Michele Bachmann at all,” Marston said in an interview with POLITICO last fall.
****A conservative Republican House member, speaking on the condition of anonymity****
Being that this was from Politico, there was no Republican house member who said this. This is a made up lie until they provide proof.
“A conservative Republican House member, speaking on the condition of anonymity”
Anyone not brave enough to put his or her name on what they say, is not worth listening to. Most of the time I wonder if there is any source whatsoever, or did the “reporter” just make up a quote out of thin air.
LOL, great minds eh?
One of the few who has a clue that Politico is a Liberal site.
Pollutico.
“Politico has long been a leftist hit-piece machine, at least as far back as Fred Thompson and the primaries.”
Totally agree with you.
Watch for many more hit pieces slamming Palin, Bachmann, Crowley, Ingraham, etc.
Maybe he is chopped liver and shouldn’t be. This is the first I ever heard of him and I follow this stuff religiously.
Thanks for the link.
Oh wow, a Congresswoman lost an aide....happens everyday. This is not news.
Right, the media refers to Bush, McCain, Grahamnesty, Snowe, Collins, Newt all as “conservative.”
She is in a battle with Pelosi, without weapons and with a much smaller army. She's extremely smart and knows how to recruit others for help...and she learns from her mistakes.
When you consider the fact that the Republicans in the House are outnumbered, and for the most part being shut out of the process, she is constantly searching for anything that can be used to get the attention of the Democrats who would prefer to completely ignore her.
And she is refusing to be ignored...and for that...she is my new favorite.
Without question it would be difficult to be the primary person in her life that is responsible keeping things organized, but she will eventually fill that position with someone unafraid to ride a roller-coaster.
I love this woman.
The nerve of these peons who think they are worthy to actually talk to congresscrooks!
Bachmann is awesome. No need for us to be distracted by some sorta irrelevant stuff about who is or isn’t in her office when someone calls. Good grief. We’re fighting for the soul of the nation and Bachmann is a CRUCIAL leader.
More likely the writer made it up
And our childrens' future. We must stop this socialist tyranny in its tracks.
Bachmann, turn her over, drive (the leftists nuts)!
Waxman, Obama and company do things like this all of the time. Obama made a living organizing mobs to confront businesses and politicians and 'get in their faces'. Have you never heard of ACORN?
If you are too sensitive for activist politics stay in electoral politics.
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“When your captain’s crazy, it’s time to find a new ship,” the lawmaker said.
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Captain Bachmann + her crew of "travel-ready Conservatives" are all crazy. Yeah, standing up for the Constitution, figuratively and literally, is now "crazy" in Washington.
Washington DC, We The People have not yet begun to fight!!
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